Cambodia Post earns $11 million in 2019
State-run Cambodia Post generated revenues of total $11 million in 2019, according to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication (MPT). This represents a drop on the $13.81 million revenue total in 2018. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50707623/cambodia-post-earns-11-million-in-2019/
Government declares e-governance now a top priority amid pandemic
The Government has stated its commitment to making e-governance a priority during the COVID-19 outbreak to ensure services remain timely and available, according to senior government officials. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50708895/government-declares-e-governance-now-a-top-priority-amid-pandemic/
Wind power on horizon
An 80MW wind power investment project in Kampot province will be ready to deliver electricity as soon as the developer completes negotiating a power purchase agreement with state-run electricity supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EdC). ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wind-power-horizon
ARDB loans: More SMEs apply
Seven small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have applied for $200,000 loans from the state-owned Agricultural and Rural Development Bank (ARDB), after it announced the launch of a $50 million fund for SMEs last month. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ardb-loans-more-smes-apply
US trade up 35% in Q1
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United States has been valued at $1.678 billion for the first quarter of 2020, representing a 35 percent increase compared with the same time last year, according to trade data from the US Government. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50720675/us-trade-up-35-in-q1/
Mondulkiri sanctuary land grabbers charged
In April, 13 suspects were charged in the Mondulkiri Provincial Court for encroaching on forest land in wildlife sanctuaries at Phnom Prich, Srepok, Nam Lear, and Keo Seima, said Ministry of Environment secretary of state and spokesperson Neth Pheaktra. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-sanctuary-land-grabbers-charged
CRF asks ministry for $30M increase to purchase paddy
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has asked the Ministry of Economy and Finance to disburse an additional $30 million through the state-owned Agricultural and Rural Development Bank (ARDB), its president Song Saran told The Post on Monday. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/crf-asks-ministry-30m-increase-purchase-paddy
PPAP works to soften virus hit
Listed state-owned port operator Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) has doubled down on its commitment to enhance its business performance during the global health crisis by reducing expenses and postponing non-urgent investment, director-general Hei Bavy told its annual meeting on Friday. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppap-works-soften-virus-hit
Governor requested to reclaim land in Kampong Speu
A prominent environmental watchdog head has sent a letter to Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang requesting he reclaim 1,500ha that was encroached on in Oral district’s Tasal commune as state property. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governor-requested-reclaim-land-kampong-speu
NA passes AJCEP-1st Protocol
The National Assembly on Monday approved the First Protocol to Amend the Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Partnership among Japan and Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AJCEP – 1st Protocol). ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/na-passes-ajcep-1st-protocol
‘Single Portal’ integrated registration system welcomes nearly 50 firms
Forty-seven companies have successfully registered via a newly-launched information technology e-business registration platform as of the end of the second week of this month, Ministry of Economy and Finance secretary of state Phan Phalla said. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/single-portal-integrated-registration-system-welcomes-nearly-50-firms
Acleda, CDB ink $130M credit facility pact
Acleda Bank Plc, Cambodia’s largest locally-owned commercial bank, has signed a $130 million long-term facility agreement with Chinese state-owned China Development Bank Corp (CDB), the world’s largest development bank by assets, it said in a press release on Friday. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/acleda-cdb-ink-130m-credit-facility-pact
Crisis talks on threat to rice imports
The Commerce Ministry and Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) had an urgent meeting about the USA Rice Federation to the The United States International Trade Commission (USITC) on the eliminating a trade benefit on rice imported to US including from Cambodia. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50744806/crisis-talks-on-threat-to-rice-imports/
Environment ministry looks into illegal posts in M’kiri sanctuary
The Ministry of Environment is investigating a group that erected more than 50 stone and wooden posts and built fences on State land in the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-looks-illegal-posts-mkiri-sanctuary
Battambang teachers use makeshift classrooms to tutor students
In late May, school teachers in Battambang’s Samlout district realized students were struggling to cope with studying at home – either via videos posted on social media or the daily telecasts on state broadcaster TVK. ...
Sokummono Khan and Hean Socheata
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/battambang-teachers-use-makeshift-classrooms-to-tutor-students/5528681.html
Approval in principle for new airport
The government has approved in principle the construction of a new domestic airport in Mondulkiri province under a public-private partnership (PPP). The approval was signed by the Council of Ministers’ Permanent Secretary of State Hing Thoraxy on New Year’s Eve. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50800187/approval-in-principle-for-new-airport/
Forestry crimes up last year, official vows law enforcement
Forestry crimes including logging, poaching and encroachment on state forest land for private ownership increased considerably last year despite stricter law enforcement, according to an annual report by the Ministry of Environment. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forestry-crimes-last-year-official-vows-law-enforcement
Cambodia Posts sets stricter time demands
Cambodia Post (CP) has imposed more stringent time demands for its domestic Express Mail Service (EMS) across its branches to carve a larger slice of the local market and offset the Covid-19 pandemic’s toll on international postage services, the state-owned enterprise said in a notice ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-posts-sets-stricter-time-demands
Forum to promote ‘Access to Finance for Women Entrepreneurs in COVID-19 Era’
The National Bank of Cambodia has collaborated with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Pact Cambodia, Khmer Enterprise, Swisscontact and Good Return to organise the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Forum on “Access to Finance for Women Entrepreneurs in COVID-19 Era”. ...
Commerce ministry rolls out mobile markets to Red Zones
The Ministry of Commerce on April 20 dispatched five trucks to seven “Red Zones” to sell food products and groceries at below-market prices during the ongoing two-week coronavirus lockdown in Phnom Penh and adjacent Takmao town in Kandal province, according to undersecretary of state Pen ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commerce-ministry-rolls-out-mobile-markets-red-zones